The bill is a memorial from the Washington State Legislature urging Congress to amend the Marine Mammal Protection Act and the Migratory Bird Act to facilitate the management of pinniped and predatory bird populations in Puget Sound. The memorial highlights the significant threat these species pose to critically endangered salmon stocks in the region, noting that while pinniped and predatory bird populations have rebounded, their predation is detrimental to salmon populations listed under the Endangered Species Act.

The proposed amendments would allow state and treaty tribes to remove pinnipeds in freshwater river systems and estuaries where federally listed salmonids are present, require the National Marine Fisheries Service to process permit applications from states or tribes within six months, and eliminate the National Environmental Policy Act requirement for assessing these applications. The memorial emphasizes the need for these changes to protect salmon populations and calls for immediate transmission of the memorial to key federal officials and members of Congress.